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Carbon emissions, animal exploitation, water waste—there are a lot of eco-unfriendly factors that you could be contributing to without even realizing it. Here are nine common travel eco blunders…and how to fix them so that you really do only leave footprints behind.

It’s just after 6pm on a Tuesday in Istanbul. The line of traffic snakes down Kemeralti Caddesi, workers all heading toward the Bosphorus Bridge to take them out of the city’s downtown European core and home to the primarily residential Asian side. It’s rush hour, but it could really be any time of day.

Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia offers a green paradise for eco-conscious travellers. Among the locals, there’s a genuine love for the land and meaningful commitment to preserving it. It’s not eco-tourism, it’s eco-living. And when a place and its people are so naturally beautiful, you can’t help but feel healed.

Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton has some of the world’s best seafood: lobsters are pulled fresh from the sea, scallops have put the town of Digby on foodie maps, and their chowder is as much a part of the culture as tartans and the fiddle. But there’s also a thriving food and drink scene along Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail, where lobster is just the beginning.

When the flood waters stormed Calgary last month, one big question was whether the “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” would be cancelled. Travel+Escape went behind the scenes in Calgary to see how the rodeo went ahead, come hell or high water.

It’s the Days of Wine and Chocolate festival all this month in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Whether you’re there for a Valentine’s Day adventure with your sweetheart or a girls’ getaway with friends, here’s how to make the most of this sweet event.

Iceland’s landscape is often described as “other worldly” or “eerie,” with its black lava fields, steaming hot springs, and temperamental volcanoes that leave you feeling as if you’re on another planet. And while much of this small arctic country fits that description, perhaps no area displays the alien-like beauty of Iceland like Lake Mývatn.

The first thing they tell you at the Ice Hotel is not to put your head inside your sleeping bag. You’ll want to. It’s cold in the Ice Hotel and your nose will want to tuck itself under the covers to keep warm. But if you do, your warm breath will mix with the hotel’s cold air and you’ll end up with a sleeping bag with an opening coated in ice.

When you first arrive at Gullfoss, you’ll wonder what all the fuss is about. You approach from the top, down river from where the falls drop off, and as you draw nearer, it looks like a small, albeit pretty, waterfall. You’ll probably think it seems a bit disappointing to be the most famous waterfall in Iceland, but then as you walk closer, you’ll suddenly realize that the falling water just… disappears.

If you’re prone to carsickness, a trip to Australia’s Jenolan Caves may not be for you. The road leading into the Jenolan Caves is a winding, up, down, narrow jumble of twists and turns that can leave even the calmest passenger feeling a bit nauseated.

The seaside temple of Pura Tanah Lot is probably the most famous and most photographed place in Bali. Every hotel offers sunset tours out to the temple, and every visitor has seen photos of it before they’ve even visited. There’s really only one reason for its iconic status: it’s beautiful.

When I was brainstorming ideas for what to do last weekend, a friend suggested we visit the Badlands. Badlands? As in those odd, Mars-like barren dunes you find out west? I told her that sounded swell and all, but this was going to be a one day adventure and a trip to Alberta was out of the question.

To skate the Rideau Canal is to conquer the fierce February winds, and then succumb to the inevitable muscle aches that sear your legs in the days that follow. Stretching out at just less then 16 km round-trip (the size of more than 100 hockey rinks laid end-to-end), Ottawa’s Rideau Canal is the world’s largest skating rink.

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Tammy! Thanks so much for your very kind mention and link to my blog. I was just becoming grumpy and sad about laboring away in the trenches seemingly for naught. Your pingback definitely perked up my spirits.

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